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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder: the House recess isn't because of the budget, the House adjourned before the shutdown because the GOP doesn't want to hold a vote to release government files on a pedophile because everyone knows those files implicate Trump. Republicans are doing this to protect their pedophile President.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 14h

It's been a fact of my entire working life, but I can't for the life of me understand why open, explicitly partisan gerrymandering is legal in the first place

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Snowflake TACO

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Had to double check to make sure Greg Davis wasn't the OC.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 2d

I absolutely love that Moody did that post game interview with his helmet on 😂

NFL kicker keeps his helmet on while being interviewed after game winning field goal.

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 2d

Troy Aikman is terrible.

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Atle @atle5.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t forget to release the Epstein files!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 2d

How many of those 9 are from the Cubs series last week?!

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 2d

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 3d

Pure fucking evil

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4d

In 1980, Kirk Ferentz was a Grad Assistant at Pitt.

RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 4d

Badgers shutout at home for the first time since 1980...

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 3d

The Administrations gift happening right under our noses....

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely. Give the big fella a break!

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4d

IOWA THICC PICK SIX

WITH ERIC COLLINS ON THE CALL

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 5d

The Federal Government is torturing it's own civilians & veterans.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats to President Trump for getting his updated COVID-19 booster. I wonder if he thought about how many MAGA voters still believe the conspiracy theories he started while he rolled up his sleeve.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 6d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 7d

So much for the party of small government and "Let the States decide"

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 7d

Where's the Daily Show Journalists when you need them?!?!?!

Q: Have you given any more thought to pardoning Peter Draggon?

TRUMP: Who?

Q: Peter Draggon

TRUMP: I don't know. He did some nice things, very nice things but I'll have to read the request.

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AmericaNeedsFarmers @anfstrong.bsky.social · 8d

How in the hell does the asshole that pulled the trigger not go to jail?

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